Data Centre Site Supervisor

University of Fort Hare; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A higher education institution in Johannesburg is seeking a Data Centre Site Supervisor responsible for overseeing the efficient operation of the Data Centre facility. The ideal candidate should possess excellent technical abilities and a minimum of 5 years of relevant data center experience. Key responsibilities include managing a team of technicians, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and maintaining data center infrastructure to ensure high uptime.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge on Data Centre environments and critical infrastructure systems.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of technicians to ensure smooth operation of the facility.
• Responsible for management of maintenance tasks and client upgrades.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis for incidents and outages.

Skills

Excellent technical abilities

Effective communication skills

Proactive problem solver

Advance Microsoft Office skills

Education

Electrical qualification preferable

Minimum 5 years relevant data center experience

Job description

R 50000 - R 58000 Monthly Basic Salary (Market related, Negotiable)

Our client based in Isando Johannesburg, Is seeking a Data Centre Site Supervisor to join their team. The Data Centre Site Supervisor is responsible for the effective and efficient running of the Data Centre facility in itsentirety, providing support to the Data Centre Manager.

OBJECTIVES

Main function of the Job

Data Centre Management

• Manage a team of technicians to ensure smooth operation of the facility.
• Responsible for management and distribution of maintenance tasks and managing client upgrades such as cable replacements, component and accessory swap out and custom upgrades.
• Ensure that records, drawings/schematics and working methods for the facility are maintained and updated following any changes or upgrades.
• Manage planned and corrective maintenance events ensuring adherence to OHS act requirements and in accordance to predefined standards and schedules.
• Share knowledge and industry best practices by building close working relationships with technical teams and supervisors across all regions.
• Ongoing training and evaluation of technical teams on Data Centre best practices and standards.
• Work closely with Data Centre Manager to resolve escalated support cases and provide relevant technical feedback including completion of incident reports.
• Ensuring comprehensive Root Cause Analysis are completed for all incidents and outages o Monitoring of alerting on all Data Centre equipment, technical team response and feedback to business.
• Quick response, resolution and reporting to all alerting and critical situations.
• 3 rd party vendor management.
• Manage working methods to ensure all SLA’s, OLA’s and MSA’s are achieved and maintained.
• Implement corrective actions promptly to mitigate the negative effects of system outages.

Compliance

• Maintain compliance in accordance with all relative policies and procedures.
• Maintain compliance in accordance with all relevant certified ISO standards.
• Support the HR department in achieving the organization developmental plan deliverables within agreed timelines.
• Meet agreed inter-departmental OLA (Operational Level Agreement)
• HS&E monitoring and corrective action to meet statutory compliance, SLAs and good business practice.
• Implement company and departmental policies, processes and work instructions as per the agreed quality and timeline/RFS (Ready for Service).
• Critical System Management
• Management of data centre infrastructure to provide a concurrently maintainable, cost-effective system supporting 99.999% electrical uptime and 99.99% mechanical uptime.
• Ensure applicable planned and corrective maintenance is managed accordingly to ensure customer MSA’s and SLA’s are achieved.
• Conduct working methods to maintain agreed PUE levels.
• Task finalization and report accurately, as per agreed format, quality and within the agreed timelines

Data Centre Ethics

• Ensure compliance is maintained incorporating industry best practices.
• Ensure data centre facilities standards are enforced and maintained.
• Ensure data centre cleaning standards are enforced and maintained.
• Ensure compliance with HS&E standards are enforced and maintained.

Skill Requirements

• Excellent technical abilities.
• Effective communication skills, active listener – ability to understand requirements.
• Proactive problem solver, perform rapid and accurate assessments.
• Ability to work independently, as well as being a positive team player.
• Self-motivated.
• Conducts self professionally, exhibits elevated levels of tolerance and patience.
• Responsible for continued learning and self-development.
• Quick response to all situations.
• Trouble shoot systems and components to identify root causes of failures.
• Advance Microsoft Office skills

Qualifications and Experience

• Electrical qualification preferable.
• Minimum 5 years relevant data center experience
• Extensive knowledge on Data Centre environments and critical infrastructure systems.

SHEQ, Information Security, Legal and other requirements and obligations

• Employees to demonstrate commitment to the requirements of the Integrated Management System by:
• Taking reasonable care for the health and safety of himself/herself, others and the workplace
• Obeying all stipulated company rules, policies and procedures in compliance to the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993, ISO 27001:2013 and ISO 9001:2015 Standards Report all unsafe or unhealthy conditions and threats that come to his/her attention that may affect persons or the business
• Ensuring the preservation of confidentiality, integrity and accessibility of information for the Company and our respective clients
• Committing to the implementation and maintenance of our Quality Management System
• All company employees are responsible for the quality of their work and the protection of company and client information.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.